Where Did It Go?

February 05, 1985|By D. Jack Wall.

SCHAUMBURG — A vast number of months ago, President Reagan and the members of Congress saw fit to place a 5-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline on all of the motorists throughout the United States. We were told at the time that this additional gasoline tax was needed to repair bridges and highway systems and create 350,000 new jobs for our unemployed.

However, our bridges are still falling apart, our highways are still full of potholes and badly in need of repairs and the 350,000 jobs that were to be created have never come forth, according to our national unemployment records. It is high time that we are given an accounting of what is being done with the monies being received from this additional gasoline tax. Prices of gasoline have been going down recently and that will only give our leaders in Washington another reason to place a further tax on gasoline.